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Rule 227. Challenge to Juror

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A challenge to a particular juror is either a challenge for cause or a peremptory challenge. The court shall decide without delay any such challenge, and if sustained, the juror shall be discharged from the particular case. Either such challenge may be made orally on the formation of a jury to try the case.

Source: Art. 2142, unchanged.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.